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1. Nov 12

   11:27 AM
    tim_lebsack
   

   America’s occupational licensing laws historically were legislated to prevent former slaves from competing in the market.
   Libertarians are working to rescind all of these roadblocks to progress.

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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
-- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.E3A6


"Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities."
-- Robert Nozick, Harvard Philosopher
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Nozick.Quote.17FB


"The growth of federal power and programs over this century -- involving the regulation of business, the expansion of "civil rights," the production of environmental goods, and much else -- has taken place in large measure through the power of Congress to regulate "commerce among the states." That power has been read so broadly by the modern Court that Congress today can regulate anything that even "affects" commerce, which in principle is everything. As a result, save for the restraints imposed by the Bill of Rights, the commerce power is now essentially plenary, which is hardly what the Framers intended when they enumerated Congress’s powers. Indeed, if they had meant for Congress to be able to do anything it wanted under the commerce power, the enumeration of Congress’s other powers -- to say nothing of the defense of the doctrine of enumerated powers throughout the Federalist Papers -- would have been pointless. The purpose of the commerce clause quite simply, was to enable Congress to ensure the free flow of commerce among the states. Under the Articles of Confederation, state legislatures had enacted tariffs and other protectionist measures that impeded interstate commerce. To break the logjam, Congress was empowered to make commerce among the states "regular." In fact, the need to do so was one of the principal reasons behind the call for a new constitution."
-- Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute
Source: Restoring Constitutional Government, Cato's Letter #9, p. 6, published by the Cato Institute (1995). http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Roger.Pilon.Quote.E476

 
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 I know this person -- TL

“It breaks my heart when there’s someone who smokes, and who stays drunk half the time, and we’re supposed to provide their health care.” -- Texas State Representative Warren Chisum(R)



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"Restraint of government is the true liberty and freedom of the people."
-- John P. Reid
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Reid.Quote.DBE2


"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."
-- Murray N. Rothbard
(1926-1995) Dean of the Austrian School of Economics
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Murray.Rothbard.Quote.A40F


According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American’s output—which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American’s living standard would at least double.
-- Paul Craig Roberts
(1939- ) Economist, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration ("Father of Reaganomics"), former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service.
Source: Taxes take enormous toll on America, THE CONSERVATIVE CHRONICLE p. 21, May 1, 1996
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Paul.Craig.Roberts.Quote.28D0

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My comment at 

Texas Gov. Rick Perry stays course on film incentives despite advocacy group's criticism

tim_lebsack

1:19 PM on November 18, 2010

re: "Not only have we seen a return of more than $500 million on our investment as well as numerous jobs for Texans, this program has helped Texas remain competitive" with other states in attracting these projects, said his spokeswoman, Lucy Nashed.

The citizen's of Texas are not pawns in Rick Perry's competition. A person's charitable contributions are not the concern of Rick Perry.
Leave the money in the pockets of those who earned it.

Liberty For All.

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McDonald's Supports Parental Choice

Today's "opinion journalism," which is a contradiction, has eroded the public's trust in networks and newspapers, as reflected in declining ratings and circulation. People today tune in to programming that only reinforces what they already believe. 

-- Cal Thomas

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My comments at

Chinese father punished for food safety activism

tim_lebsack 2 minutes ago

re: lawyer Li Fangping said. "The crimes he was accused of were nothing more than what regular citizens would do to defend their rights."

The Chinese government is much like the USA government - neither believes individuals have rights.

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 My comments at

 Republicans are conflicted over earmark ban

tim_lebsack 3 minutes ago

re: McConnell said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "There are many members of my conference who have said, 'I don't want the president to make all the decisions about how the funds are spent that might be allocated in my state.'"

The problem occurs because this procedure is the opposite of our governmental design.
States are supposed to allocate funds to the Congress, NOT Congress allocating funds to States.

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My comments at

Forgive Them for They Have No Clue of What They Do.

 

tim_lebsack said

November 10, 2010 at 4:36 pm Keep fighting the good fight, sir.
Some people still do not understand that “free” is a false concept.
(I blame General Mills)

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"Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position."  
 -- Mario Palmieri, The Philosophy of Fascism, 1936




"We ask that government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within the confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: ... an end to the power of financial interest. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand ... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our system of public education.... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents.... The government must undertake the improvement of public health -- by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor -- by the greatest possible support for all groups concerned with the physical education of youth. [W]e combat the ... materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good."

 -- National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI) planks,  adopted in Munich on February 24, 1920











"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance." 

  -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 

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"We are extremely disappointed with today's decision. It's not what our customers want, nor is it something they asked for. Public opinion continues to be overwhelmingly against this misguided legislation. Parents tell us it's their right and responsibility — not the government's — to make their own decisions and to choose what's right for their children." -- McDonald's spokeswoman Danya Proud

War Department

The Department of War (If it’s really the Department of “Defense,” why do we need a separate “Department of Homeland Security”?) -- Vin Suprynowicz

 

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Tom Brokaw quote

"There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public education...." Agreed. Public Education is a total failure.  Responsible parents and the non-parents paying for this debacle should demand an end to government education.

".....It is the underpinning of our cultural and political system....." You could not be more wrong, Mr. Brokaw, and even if government educating our children is the underpinning of your cultural and political system, why do you force that underpinning on me?  Why does your cultural and political system advocate aggression?

"....It is the great common ground...." No, again. The beginnings of the United States was where we agreed that no common ground would be required.

"....Public education after all is the engine that moves us as a society toward a common destiny...."   Only if that destiny is despair.  We have no common destiny except that to which we ALL agree.

"....It is in public education that the American dream begins to take shape."    I disagree.  The American dream, as abstract a concept as ever conceived, takes shape DESPITE public education.  

-- Tom Brokaw

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"Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or
fame."  -- P. J. O'Rourke




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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Marcus.Tullius.Cicero.Quote.732E


"The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government." -- Joyce Lee Malcolm
Professor of law, historian, and Constitutional scholar Source: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. IX http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joyce.Malcolm.Quote.652F


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If this country had founders that only went for what they were certain to accomplish America would not be here. -- Arthur M. Thomas IV

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"Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property -- so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property." -- Leonard Peikoff (1933- ) Source: The Ominous Parallels
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Leonard.Peikoff.Quote.8A07


"[I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans—the tyranny of lawless leaders." -- Phil Trieb
Source: The New American, p. 39 April 29, 1996. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Phil.Trieb.Quote.AD4C

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Simon Sinek

http://www.startwithwhy.com/

Pick One - Prohibition Party or Vegetarian Party ????

What's it gonna be ?

Give up meat or give up booze ??

http://the-classic-liberal.com/nation-pioneers-nation-sheep/


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"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence." -- Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system" http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.A812


"Democrats and Republicans alike support the "War on Drugs." Federal, state, and local police make more than a million drug arrests yearly. Drug cases clog the courts. More than 60% of federal prison cells and about 30% of state prison cells hold drug offenders. No-knock drug raiders nullify the Fourth Amendment every day. Yet illicit drugs continue to pour onto the market, and they are readily available throughout the land. Looks like another failed policy. But politicians say more money will win the war. For fiscal 1996, President Clinton has requested a record $14.6 billion for this exercise in futility. State and local government will also spend huge sums. Who benefits? Posturing politicians and puritanical zealots, of course, but also the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs Service, Coast Guard, FBI, and the rest of the drug warriors. Police love the drug war, because the forfeiture laws it inspired allow them to seize and keep private property with impunity. Corrupt cops get fabulous bribes, and corruption therefore runs rampant." -- Robert Higgs (1944- ) American economic historian, economist of the Austrian School Source: The Myth of “Failed” Policies, THE FREE MARKET, June 1995. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Higgs.Quote.DBA9


"Now it is one thing to say (I say it) that people shouldn’t consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?" -- William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) American author and journalist, founded 'National Review' Source: October 21, 1997 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.F..Buckley.Quote.71B3

[T]he drug prohibition laws have led to wholesale destruction of civil liberties. The War on Drugs has now become a War on the Constitution, and the American people have become, in the eyes of their government, a society of suspects. -- David B. Kopel American author, attorney, political science researcher. contributing editor to several publications Source: Crime and Punishment Symposium: A System in Collapse: Peril or Protection? The Risks and Benefits of Handgun Prohibition, 12 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. 285, 319 (1993). http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Kopel.Quote.66AA


"[A]fter 20 years on the bench, I have concluded that Federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the Government out of drug enforcement. ... If the possession or distribution of drugs were no longer a Federal crime, other levels of government would face the choice of enforcement or ... decriminalizing. ... The variety, complexity and importance of these questions make it exceedingly clear that the Federal Government has no business being involved in any of them. What might be a hopeful solution in New York, could be a disaster in Idaho, and only State legislatures and city governments, not Congress, can pass laws tailored to local needs. ... It [Congress] should repeal all Federal laws that prohibit or regulate their distribution ..." -- Judge Whitman Knapp (1909-2004) US Federal Judge (U.S. Dist. Ct., South. Dist. of N.Y.)
Source: May 9, 1993, letter to editor, New York Times. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Whitman.Knapp.Quote.21DB


"It is becoming increasingly apparent that many -- arguably most -- of the problems that plague our nation have been aggravated rather than alleviated by federal intervention. In one area after another, massive infusions of tax dollars have been squandered on false solutions which, when they fail to achieve their stated objectives, are cited to justify even more spending on other futile schemes that result in bigger government. Examples include programs and laws supposedly intended to reduce racial animosity which have instead heightened race-related tensions; welfare schemes that, rather than reducing poverty, have enticed millions of Americans to become dependent on Washington for their daily bread; federal funding (and control) of education, which has spawned a monumental education crisis; a "war" on drugs which has done little to curb drug traffic, but which has eroded many personal liberties; a health-care finance system that has deteriorated as government meddling and regulation have increased; and a masochistic immigration policy larded with false "solutions" that, while failing to stop the inflow of illegal aliens, have paved the way for further government intrusion into the lives of nearly all Americans." -- Robert W. Lee Source: Danger of Government Intrusion, THE NEW AMERICAN, February 19, 1996, p. 53. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Lee.Quote.983E


"The sentiment that modern day ordinary Canadians do not need firearms for protection is pleasant but unrealistic. To discourage responsible deserving Canadians from possessing firearms for lawful self-defence and other legitimate purposes is to risk sacrificing them at the altar of political correctness." -- Don Demetrick Alberta Provincial Court Judge http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Don. Demetrick.Quote.486A

"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you."  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian Statesman and Political Philosopher Source: The Prince
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Niccolo.Machiavelli.Quote.EEE1


"Pity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection." -- Pierre Lemieux Source: LIBERTY Magazine Nov. '97
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Pierre.Lemieux.Quote.1CF0

There is simply no escaping the fact that the fate of the Constitution is in our hands -- as voters, representatives, justices. If we allow ourselves to abuse the tradition of higher lawmaking, the very idea that the Constitution can be viewed as the culminating expression of a mobilized citizenry will disintegrate. After all, the American Republic is no more eternal than the Roman -- and it will come to an end when American citizens betray their Constitution’s fundamental ideals and aspirations so thoroughly that existing institutions merely parody the public meanings they formerly conveyed. -- Bruce Ackerman (1943-) American constitutional law scholar, Sterling Professor at Yale Law School Source: We The People: Foundations, p.291 (1991) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bruce.Ackerman.Quote.F765


"Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand." -- Dr. Ron Paul (1935-) American physician, US Congressman (R-TX), US Presidential candidate Source: Why Is There So Much Money in Politics?, February 4, 2002
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ron.Paul.Quote.4211


"If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you're likely to win?" -- Michael Badnarik (1954- ) American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Michael.Badnarik.Quote.2B2B


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 My comments at

Places where Political Party Affiliations Really do not Belong

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by tim_lebsack 1 minute ago

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re: "What purpose does this serve?"
I often ask candidates for non-partisan offices where there political allegiance lies. Even if the office is designated non-partisan, no candidate I've met has been able to divest his allegiance, therefore always betraying his bias which will affect his decision making.
I choose the libertarian option - What purpose to giving away your power to these elected officials? There is an option, created by the founding fathers, whereby the problems of your complaint are minimized.


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There is nothing economically special about international trade as compared to intranational trade – save, of course, for the sorry fact that politicians and rent-seeking producers find it easy to demagogue for their own greedy, narrow purposes. -- Don Boudreaux

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My comments at 

North Texas Tea Party

tim_lebsack says:

November 4, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Apparently you got what you wanted, though I’m not understanding how these election results are synonymous with Tea Party ideas of small government, low taxes. What am I mis-understanding ?
Please send me a list of the government programs that will be eliminated over the next two years because of this Tea-nami. Even better, let us wager a weeks pay based on my asking you to show me and your readers, on Election Day 2012, proof of smaller government, low taxes because of the Tea-nami.

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